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Gene WIlder passed away, at the age of 83. He's battling Alzheimer's disease. He's famous for being in Willy Wonka, and others.

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Gene Wilder died Monday morning at age 83 from Alzheimer's disease,  Ostrum said "it's like loosing a parent, you never see it happen but you know it will.. Gene is gone and there will never be another person like him" Peter Ostrum was struck by Gene's death.

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Love it or leave it: Donald trump tells Kaepernick to find a country that works better for him

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Man arrested after trying to open Alaska airlines door mid-flight

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Suicide bomber crashed into the entrance of the Chinese Embassy In Kyrgyzstan, setting off a bomb that killed killed the bomber and three employees.

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Trump tells kaepernick to ''find a country that fits with him''.

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People in the Fleetwood Manor Apartments in Greenville, South Carolina are being warned about a clown lurking around the area. It is said that the clown is trying to lure children into the woods.

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North Korea executed two officials for disobeying Kim Jong Un, This is the latest in a series of high-level purges.

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Iran confrontations with US Navy double from last year, more frequent than thought. The number of interactions between Iranian vessels and the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf nearly doubled in the first half of 2016 compared with the same time period a year ago.

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Dangerous confrontations between Iran and the U.S. Navy are becoming even more frequent than previously estimated, Fox News has learned.

According to new data shared Monday with Fox News by a U.S. defense official, the number of provocative interactions between Iranian vessels and the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf nearly doubled in the first half of 2016 compared with the same time period a year ago.

"In the first half of 2016, we have seen nearly twice as many unprofessional and/or unsafe interactions when compared to the first half last year. That's a disturbing rise and it has continued into the second half of the year," said the official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

In the first half of 2016, there were 19 dangerous interactions with the Iranians, which the U.S. Navy characterized as "unsafe and unprofessional." In the first half of 2015, that number was 10, according to the official. The Iranian vessels acted as the aggressors every time, according to the U.S. Navy.

The account follows a Fox News report on Friday citing estimates that such confrontations are up more than 50 percent this year.

The defense official, though, said Monday the U.S. Navy had gone through its numbers over the weekend and reclassified some of them. (U.S. Central Command had issued a statement in July saying there were 26 dangerous interactions in the first half of 2016.)

The new numbers show an even sharper rise in the first half of the year, though the number itself is lower than Central Command first estimated.

Further, since July, there have been 11 dangerous confrontations, according to the data, in a sign of increasing Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. There were four such encounters with Iran last week alone, including one that required warning shots from a U.S. Navy ship.

In total, there have been 30 dangerous interactions with Iran so far this year, amounting to more dangerous dealings with the Iranians in eight months than all of last year. In 2015, 24 "unsafe interactions" with the Iranians were recorded, according to the official.

This comes despite the highly touted nuclear accord, as well as a recent $1.7 billion U.S. payment to Tehran in January.

Iran's increasingly aggressive behavior is expected to come up Tuesday when the U.S. commander for American forces in the Middle East, Gen. Joseph Votel, briefs reporters at the Pentagon.

Over the weekend, there were more signs of Iran's increasingly aggressive military behavior.

On Sunday, Iran announced via its state TV that it had deployed the Russian S-300 missile system around its nuclear facility in Fordow, a previous uranium enrichment site. According to the nuclear agreement, Fordow is no longer permitted to enrich uranium, but can only be used for civilian research.

Last week, one of the four incidents of provocative Iranian behavior was filmed by the U.S. Navy.

The video showed four Iranian gunboats from its Revolutionary Guard Corps coming within 300 yards of USS Nitze, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The U.S. destroyer fired flares, increased speed and took evasive maneuvers, while the Iranian ships ignored calls on the radio to stop. William Urban, a spokesman for the Navy's 5 th Fleet, called the actions as "unsafe and unprofessional."

The next day, in a separate incident in the northern Persian Gulf, a U.S. coastal patrol ship fired three warning shots from its .50 caliber machine gun when one Iranian ship came within 200 yards.

In January, Iranian gunboats from its Revolutionary Guard Corps also seized 10 U.S. Navy sailors after their two patrol craft drifted into Iranian waters near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. They were released the following day.

This week, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said his warships would continue to confront any U.S. Navy ship near Iran's territorial waters.

"If an American ship enters Iran's maritime region, it will definitely get a warning. We will monitor them and, if they violate our waters, we will confront them," he said according to the Iranian Students' News Agency.

Asked to respond to Dehghan's comments at a press briefing Thursday, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook responded, "[W]e certainly hope it doesn't continue, because it serves no purpose other than to raise tensions in an important part of the world; and tensions that we don't seek to have escalated."
Lucas Tomlinson is the Pentagon and State Department producer for Fox News Channel. You can follow him on Twitter: @LucasFoxNews

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Iran confrontations with US Navy double from last year, more frequent than thought

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Dangerous confrontations between Iran and the U.S. Navy are becoming even more frequent than previously estimated, Fox News has learned. According to new data shared Monday with Fox News by a U.S. defense official, the number of provocative interactions between Iranian vessels and the U.S.

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Suicide bomber injures 3 people at Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan.

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One college student was killed and another was injured after being stabbed in a large fight on Cornell University campus. There were several hundred students at this event.

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3 hurt as Suicide bomber hits Chinese Embassy

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$360M US Navy combat ships damaged.

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Authorities led a man off an Alaska Airlines flight in handcuffs after he attempted to open the aircraft's door mid-flight on Monday.

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Authorities led a man off an Alaska Airlines flight in handcuffs after he attempted to open the aircraft's door mid-flight on Monday, reports KOMO, an ABC affiliate in Seattle.

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The Seattle-bound flight took off from JFK International Airport in New York, but was diverted to Minneapolis so the man could be removed and taken into custody.

The passenger became unruly, then tried to open a door at the rear of the 737, Alaska spokeswoman Halley Knigge told KOMO.

She said it would not be possible for a passenger to open the door in flight because of air pressure differences inside and outside the plane.

The crew initially tried to calm the man, then decided to divert to Minneapolis. Police arrested the man after the 737 landed in Minneapolis about 9:45 a.m. local time, KOMO reported.

The plane finally landed in Seattle just before 1 p.m. local time.

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Man Arrested After Trying to Open Alaska Airlines Door Mid-Flight

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Authorities led a man off an Alaska Airlines flight in handcuffs after he attempted to open the aircraft's door mid-flight on Monday, reports KOMO, an ABC affiliate in Seattle. The Seattle-bound flight took off from JFK International Airport in New York, but was diverted to Minneapolis so the man...

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3 hurt as suicide bomber hits Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan

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A student from Ithaca was injured after being stabbed during a "large fight" on the nearby Cornell University campus early Sunday. The police then identified him dead .

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3 people hurt as suicide bomber hits Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan.

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Mr. Kohl- RIP Willy Wonka. Yesterday, actor Gene Wilder died at the age of 83 after battling Alzheimer’s disease. You know him as the OG candy man. He’s also known for his roles in “The Producers” and “Young Frankenstein.

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Mr. Kohl- RIP Willy Wonka. Yesterday, actor Gene Wilder died at the age of 83 after battling Alzheimer’s disease. You know him as the OG candy man. He’s also known for his roles in “The Producers” and “Young Frankenstein.

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Gene Wilder, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles," " Young Frankenstein," "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and "Stir Crazy," died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 83.

His nephew said in a statement, "We understand for all the emotional and physical challenges this situation presented we have been among the lucky ones - this illness-pirate, unlike in so many cases, never stole his ability to recognize those that were closest to him, nor took command of his central-gentle-life affirming core personality. The decision to wait until this time to disclose his condition wasn't vanity, but more so that the countless young children that would smile or call out to him "there's Willy Wonka," would not have to be then exposed to an adult referencing illness or trouble and causing delight to travel to worry, disappointment or confusion. He simply couldn't bear the idea of one less smile in the world.

He continued to enjoy art, music, and kissing with his leading lady of the last twenty-five years, Karen. He danced down a church aisle at a wedding as parent of the groom and ring bearer, held countless afternoon movie western marathons and delighted in the the company of beloved ones."

He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1989.

The comic actor, who was twice Oscar nominated, for his role in "The Producers" and for co-penning "Young Frankenstein" with Mel Brooks, usually portrayed a neurotic who veered between total hysteria and dewy-eyed tenderness. "My quiet exterior used to be a mask for hysteria," he told Time magazine in 1970. "After seven years of analysis, it just became a habit."

Habit or not, he got a great deal of mileage out of his persona in the 1970s for directors like Mel Brooks and Woody Allen, leading to a few less successful stints behind the camera, the best of which was "The Woman in Red," co-starring then-wife Gilda Radner. Wilder was devastated by Radner's death from ovarian cancer in 1989 and worked only intermittently after that. He tried his hand briefly at a sitcom in 1994, "Something Wilder," and won an Emmy in 2003 for a guest role on "Will & Grace."

His professional debut came in Off Broadway's "Roots" in 1961, followed by a stint on Broadway in Graham Greene's comedy "The Complaisant Lover," which won him a Clarence Derwent Award as promising newcomer. His performance in the 1963 production of Brecht's "Mother Courage" was seen by Mel Brooks, whose future wife, Anne Bancroft, was starring in the production; a friendship with Brooks would lead to some of Wilder's most successful film work. For the time being, however, Wilder continued to work onstage, in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1963 and "Dynamite Tonight" and "The White House" the following year. He then understudied Alan Arkin and Gabriel Dell in "Luv," eventually taking over the role.

Wilder also worked in television in 1962's "The Sound of Hunting," "The Interrogators," "Windfall" and in the 1966 TV production of "Death of a Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb. He later starred in TV movies including "Thursday's Game" and the comedy-variety special "Annie and the Hoods," both in 1974.

In 1967 Wilder essayed his first memorable bigscreen neurotic, Eugene Grizzard, a kidnapped undertaker in Arthur Penn's classic "Bonnie and Clyde."

Then came "The Producers," in which he played the hysterical Leo Bloom, an accountant lured into a money bilking scheme by a theatrical producer played by Zero Mostel. Directed and written by Brooks, the film brought Wilder an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor. With that, his film career was born.

He next starred in a dual role with Donald Sutherland in "Start the Revolution Without Me," in which he displayed his fencing abilities. It was followed by another middling comedy, "Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx," also in 1970.

In 1971 he stepped into the shoes of Willy Wonka, one of his most beloved and gentle characters. Based on the children's book by Roald Dahl, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was not an immediate hit but became a children's favorite over the years. The same cannot be said for the 1974 Stanley Donen-directed musical version of "The Little Prince," in which Wilder appeared as the fox. He had somewhat better luck in Woody Allen's spoof "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex," appearing in a hilarious segment in which he played a doctor who falls in love with a sheep named Daisy.

Full-fledged film stardom came with two other Brooks comedies, both in 1974: Western spoof "Blazing Saddles" and a wacko adaptation of Mary Shelley's famous book entitled "Young Frankenstein," in which Wilder portrayed the mad scientist with his signature mixture of hysteria and sweetness.

Working with Brooks spurred Wilder to write and direct his own comedies, though none reached the heights of his collaborations with Brooks. The first of these was "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" (1975), in which he included such Brooks regulars as Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman. It was followed by 1977's "The World's Greatest Lover," which he also produced.

Wilder fared better, however, when he was working solely in front of the camera, particularly in a number of films in which he co-starred with Richard Pryor.

The first of these was 1976's "Silver Streak," a spoof of film thrillers set on trains; 1980's "Stir Crazy" was an even bigger hit, grossing more than $100 million. Wilder and Pryor's two other pairings, "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" and "Another You," provided diminishing returns, however.

While filming "Hanky Panky" in 1982, Wilder met "Saturday Night Live" comedienne Radner. She became his third wife shortly thereafter. Wilder and Radner co-starred in his most successful directing stint, "The Woman in Red" in 1984, and then "Haunted Honeymoon." But Radner grew ill with cancer, and he devoted himself to her care, working sporadically after that and hardly at all after her death in 1989.

In the early '90s he appeared in his last film with Pryor and another comedy, "Funny About Love." In addition to the failed TV series "Something Wilder" in 1994, he wrote and starred in the A&E mystery telepics "The Lady in Question" and "Murder in a Small Town" in 1999. He also appeared as the Mock Turtle in a 1999 NBC adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland."

He last acted in a couple of episodes of "Will and Grace" in 2002-03 as Mr. Stein, winning an Emmy.

He was born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee and began studying acting at the age of 12. After getting his B.A. from the U. of Iowa in 1955, Wilder enrolled in the Old Vic Theater school in Bristol, where he learned acting technique and fencing. When he returned to the U.S. he taught fencing and did other odd jobs while studying with Herbert Berghof's HB Studio and at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg.

Wilder's memoir "Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art" was published in 2005. After that he wrote fiction: the 2007 novel "My French Whore"; 2008's "The Woman Who Wouldn't"; a collection of stories, "What Is This Thing Called Love?," in 2010; and the novella "Something to Remember You By: A Perilous Romance" in 2013.

Wilder was interviewed by Alec Baldwin for the one-hour TCM documentary "Role Model: Gene Wilder" in 2008. The actor was also active in raising cancer awareness in the wake of Radner's death.

He is survived by his fourth wife Karen Boyer, whom he married in 1991 and his nephew. His sister Corinne, predeceased him in January 2016.

Before Radner, Wilder was married to the actress-playwright Mary Mercier and Mary Joan Schutz (aka Jo Ayers).

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Gene Wilder, 'Willy Wonka' Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83

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Gene Wilder, who starred "Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein" and "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," died Monday at 83.